to remain with you until I am grown; then I shall journey to Kauai
and there spend the rest of my life." Thus Kaopele lived with his
parents until he was grown, but his habit of trance still clung to him.

Then one day he filled them with grief by saying: "I am going, aloha."

They sealed their love for each other with tears and kisses, and he
slept and was gone. He alighted at Kula, on Maui. There he engaged
in cultivating food. When his crops were nearly ripe and ready to be
eaten he again fell into his customary deep sleep, and when he awoke
he found that the people of the land had eaten up all his crops.

Then he flew away to a place called Kapapakolea, in Moanalua, on Oahu,
where he set out a new plantation. Here the same fortune befell him,
and his time for sleep came upon him before his crops were fit for
eating. When he awoke, his plantation had gone to waste.

Again he moves on, and this time settles in Lihue, Oahu, where for
the third time he sets out a plantation of food, but is prevented
from eating it by another interval of sleep. Awakening, he finds his
crops overripe and wasted by neglect and decay.

His restless ambition now carries him to Lahuimalo, still on the
island of Oahu, where his industry plants another crop of food. Six
months pass, and he is about to eat of the fruits of his labor,
when one day, on plunging into the river to bathe, he falls into
his customary trance, and his lifeless body is floated by the stream
out into the ocean and finally cast up by the waters on the sands of
Maeaea, a place in Waialua, Oahu.